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29 November 2014

I think we can all agree that eventually all communication will eventually go over the internet or whatever it becomes. Should that all traffic or data be equal?

Do you want emergency 911 calls routed with the same priority as gootube cat videos? Do we want to stop all innovation? Can we afford to not develop flexible strategies? Ones that we can’t imagine now. Can the government actually decide what works best for the internet?

Big corporations are on both sides of the debate.

Do the companies that are using large bandwidth: Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, etc…, get it for free? Should they pay more for volume? Those companies win if the for argument wins.

Or the ISPs who are building the expensive gigabit last mile: Comcast, Verizon, etc.. Should we not let them compete for services that work better? Or do we want dumb pipes that don’t prioritize? That’s the against side.

I think we want the freedom of innovation and the principal of openness. I don’t think it can be legislated.

4 November 2014

WiFi barely works sometimes, but we can hardly live without it. Does an Internet of Things that partially work…work? We just bought some of these $5 qty1 programmable WiFi devices, think about what’s possible and we’ll build them for you. Let’s find out!

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3 November 2014

We now have Findamatic in the Apple, Google and Microsoft app stores. This app is comprised of >95% common code. We have more apps coming and we can develop an app specific to your enterprise or app store requirements.

Lately, I’ve been describing Findamatic as taking the “do” out of the app. What I mean is that, it’s useful without doing anything. Simply start the app and it picks a time of day appropriate choice of where to go for Breakfast, Lunch, Coffee, Dinner and Cocktails based you your minimum rating and maximum distance to travel. We hope to power many of our app designs with a tongue in check “do nothing” features based on what we know about your context

What is interesting from a technology point of view is that Findamatic for phone and tablet is over 95% common code with only minor features abstracted with custom code for each OS. We now have the ability and experience is to bring your application and ideas to market and to be able to deliver that to many platforms with a single development effort. Call us.

For iPhone and other iOS users, please try it by downloading it from the store, like it, tell others how we can bring their apps to the market or enterprise. We have a few other apps in progress and several in use inside operations within our customer’s operations.

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17 October 2014

We are releasing a new mobile app, Findamatic, on 5 platforms!

Apple

iPhones

iPads

Android

Phones

Tablets

Wear (watch)

Glass (Google eyeglasses)

Windows Phone

All of the code is written in C# and Xamarin and over 95% is common between the Phone and Tablet platforms. Google Wear and Glass are different due to the platforms being very different. This is a simple app much like but different from Magic Ate Ball we did for Android.

Currently only the Windows Phone is available on the store, but the others are on the way with approvals, beta process etc.. For the 2 of you that have a Windows phone you can try the app here. Contract me if you want to beta one of them.

With mobile getting the code working is only a small part of the problem. Xamarin is pretty good at cross platform, but interacting with the stores is a lot of work and takes persistence.

More news soon. We hope to have other apps online shortly and we have some customer non-store apps as well.